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Across the UK, the most common job is sales and retail assistants who make up 1.1 million employees. This was followed by people in jobs such as admin assistants, clerks and office administrators of which there are 774,000, according to the Office for National Statistics.

There were 746,000 care workers and home carers in 2016, as well as 643,000 nurses, with cleaners and domestics completing the top five with 580,000 working in 2016.